contextmenu

The contextmenu event fires when the user attempts to open a context menu. This is typically triggered by clicking the right mouse button, or by pressing the context menu key. (In the latter case, the context menu is displayed at the bottom left of the focused element, unless the element is a tree, in which case the context menu is displayed at the bottom left of the current row.)

Note that this event will occur with any non-disabled right-click event and does not depend on an element possessing the contextmenu attribute.

For mouseover, mouseout, mouseenter and mouseleave events: the target of the complementary event (the mouseleave target in the case of a mouseenter event). null otherwise.

screenXRead only

long

The X coordinate of the mouse pointer in global (screen) coordinates.

screenYRead only

long

The Y coordinate of the mouse pointer in global (screen) coordinates.

clientXRead only

long

The X coordinate of the mouse pointer in local (DOM content) coordinates.

clientYRead only

long

The Y coordinate of the mouse pointer in local (DOM content) coordinates.

buttonRead only

unsigned short

The button number that was pressed when the mouse event was fired: Left button=0, middle button=1 (if present), right button=2. For mice configured for left handed use in which the button actions are reversed the values are instead read from right to left.

buttonsRead only

unsigned short

The buttons being pressed when the mouse event was fired: Left button=1, Right button=2, Middle (wheel) button=4, 4th button (typically, "Browser Back" button)=8, 5th button (typically, "Browser Forward" button)=16. If two or more buttons are pressed, returns the logical sum of the values. E.g., if Left button and Right button are pressed, returns 3 (=1 | 2). More info.

mozPressureRead only

float

The amount of pressure applied to a touch or tabdevice when generating the event; this value ranges between 0.0 (minimum pressure) and 1.0 (maximum pressure).

In Gecko this event is handled by an XUL ancestor element, even for HTML5 context menus, which are actually handled by the browser element's context menu. If an XUL ancestor element has a context or contextmenu attribute referencing a popup, then it will display when this event occurs (subject to the popupshowing event).